what is with the hate for lightning skills

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Sony_Black wrote:

You could argue that in the end the slight lack of crits isn't that bad, since you can stll get a lot of shock satcks even without crits. A build with a decent crit chance and Static blows (and if you want Conductivity as well) should shock very often.

Take this example: link It will crit more than enough IMHO and even if it doesn't it has a 25% chance to shock (without conductivity!)

@Ouroboros226
Spask is your single target if you go in close and personal - spells can shotgun a spark from close range will hit the same opponent with all projectiles giving very good single target damage.

If you don't feel to confortable to go in close enough for shotgun spark you also have Arc, yes it hits more than one enemy, but in the end 3 isn't quite enough to effectively clear groups, while it is to weak with chain. So getting some dps supports on it might make it an OKish choise for single target.
Also the new skill is meant ot be both AOE and single target (since you can stack all lighning bolts on one enemy)

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benkeia wrote:

...lighnin skills have very low and very high ends

1-1000 vs 500-500...

...in the meantime a 500-500 cold dmg skill, beside having more base crit like ice spear or freezing pulse, will freeze everytime it crit due to its damage range nature...

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Zanixx wrote:

Why would people use anything else other than lightning damage if it shocked enemies and did higher damager.
Its a trade off.

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Zanixx wrote:

The very nature of lightning damage and the shock-stacking that comes with it is why the damage has such high variables.

Why would people use anything else other than lightning damage if it shocked enemies and did higher damager.
Its a trade off.

Not all spec/ele-types etc need to work the same. Lightning damage can be higher than all the others but ofcourse can often hit for far less.

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benkeia wrote:

ok ill compare it to my mellee physical damage, i use a 9.3 % crit chance claw, with 80%-40-40% to crit chance pasives and 6 power charges, my crit chance is over 75%, and crit multiplier 600%.

i flicker strike trough maps as if mobs where made of butter.

So what is your point im going to have a bad time comparing how the poorly 4% crit chance, and stacking shocking stacks, remotely compare to my mellee damage output?

yea im having a bad time noticing how great lighning dmg spells are right now, once again the guy who posted has a lvl 60 character -.- and thinks he can tell others how to compare damage.

please before stating your ideas, realize that if you haven´t tested it yourself, your opinion is just a reflection of other´s or maybe what you have seen on streams.

But if you tell me that you actively run a lighnin elemental damage mage and you consider it is currently "balanced" to your other characters, you have all my atention.